15-20 Minute Paper
Alan Sondheim
Poet, critic, musician, artist, and theorist of cyberspace
Biography
Alan Sondheim was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; he lives with his partner, Azure Carter in Brooklyn NY. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University in English. A new-media artist, writer, and theorist, he has exhibited, performed and lectured widely.
Abstract
Sondheim’s paper deals with What is to be Done, with issues of animal and plant extinctions, with degrees of hopelessness, with the mass Permian extinction, with images of escape in Second Life and elsewhere, with the damnation of technophilia and Google Glasses. Sondheim explores how to deal with absolute despair and the despair of the absolute.